Tool-handle.



PATBNTED JAN. 30

S. E. FORBMAN.

TOOL HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.26,1905.

Inventor,

Witness Attorneys,

UNIT STTFS TOOL-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed April 26, 1905- Serial N0- 257,527.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. FoanMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paducah, in the county of McCracken and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Tool-Handle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tool-handles.

The object of the invention is to provide a handle having a novel gripping-surface, which shall be so constructed and arranged as positively to prevent the hand of the user from slipping and also from perspiring, thereby weakening his grip upon the handle.

With the above and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a tool-handle, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a portion of a tool-handle, exhibiting one form of hand-grip combined therewith. Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section of the form of the invention shown in Fig. 1, the handle being only partly in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation, partly in section, of a modified form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a view in vertical longitudinal section of another modified form of the invention. Figs. 6 and 7 are views in transverse section of two other modified forms of the invention.

Referring to the drawings, and to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 thereof, 1 designates a tool-handle, such as a hammer or hatchet handle, a portion near one end of whichis circumferentially reduced in any preferred manner, and the reduced portion thus formed is diagonally or transversely scored at 2. The shoulders 3, formed by the reduced portion, are provided with recesses or chambers 4, which are adapted to communicate with channels 5, formed on the inner side of the hand-grip 6, which will be made of any suitable waterproof material, preferably of rubber, and is also eXteriorly corrugated. The corrugations 6' are provided longitudinally of their length and at spaced intervals with orifices 7, through which air entering the recesses 4 escapes, and thereby prevents the hand of the operator from perspiring. The handgrip is secured. to the reduced scored portion in any suitable manner, as by an adhesive, thereby to be positively held against movement. As shown in the views above referred to, the hand-grip abuts against the shoulders 3 and is thus positively prevented from hav ing any longitudinal movement relatively to the handle. In this form of the invention, as in the others to be described, the handgrip will have its exterior surface lie flush with the like surface of the handle, so that there will be no shoulders or projections presented upon which the hand of the operator could catch when using the handle.

In the form of the invention shown in Fi 4 the hand-grip terminates short of the shoulders 8, and the terminals of the reduced portion of the handle are provided with channels 9, through which air is supplied to the under surface of the hand-grip for the purpose above described.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 5 the hand-grip is of the same construction as that shown in Fig. 4; but instead of having the reduced portion of the handle scored and provided with short channels, as shown in Fig. 4, it is furnished with channels 10, that extend its entire length and supply air beneath the hand-grip 11 in the manner above described.

In each form of the invention thus far described the hand-grip is corrugated in crosssection both on its inner and outer sides, but in the form of the invention shown in Fig. 6 the inner side of the hand-grip 12 is flat, and the bases of the corrugations are provided with orifices 13, which register with channels 10, such as shown in either of the figures above described. With the hand-grip shown in Figs. 1 to 5 the orifices are disposed at the crests of the corrugations, while in the form shown in Fig. 6 the orifices are at the bases of the corrugations, and this latter arrangement will be advantageous in some cases, as danger of clogging of the orifices will be eliminated.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 7 the hand-grip is the same as that shown in Fig. 6that is to say, its under side is flat and its outer side is corrugated, and the airdischarge orifices 14 extend through the crests of the corrugations and communicate with the channels 10.

The improvements herein defined while exceedingly simple in character will be found thoroughly effective for the purpose designed and will in. a ready and practical manner eliminate objectionable features heretofore present in the use of rubber handholds for tool-handles. The feature of supplying air longitudinally of the grip is one of importance, as above pointed out, and will result in the production of an implement-handle which will possess points of advantage over devices of this character heretofore constructed.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is 1. A tool-handle having its grip portion circumferentially reduced and provided with channels, and an orificed grip encircling the reduced portion.

2. A tool-handle having its grip portion circumferentially reduced and provided With longitudinal channels extending throughout the length of the reduced portion, and an orificed grip encircling the said portion.

3. A tool-handle having its grip portion circumferentially reduced .and scored or roughened and provided with longitudinal channels, and an orificed grip encircling the reduced portion.

4. A tool-handle having its grip portion circumferentially reduced and provided with longitudinal channels, and an orificed rip encircling the reduced portion and of ess length than the same.

5. A tool-handle having its grip portion circumferentially reduced and longitudinally channeled, and a corrugated orificed grip encircling the reduced portion.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

SAMUEL E. FOREMAN. Witnesses H. W. WATTERS, E. W. FOREMAN. 

